I use ip route and it seems to work ok for me. To check you can use iptraf (written by a fellow filipino gerald java)..
On 7/6/09, Alec Joseph Rivera <[email protected]> wrote: > Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: >> i'm been trying this "ip route add ... equalize..." thing. sometimes >> it works, sometimes it doesn't. >> > The thing with this is if you're testing from a single station you won't > see much. But if you have many stations, looking at the outbound routes > will show you that it works. It doesn't make sense for the router to > keep on switching gateways, even if say gateway A is unresponsive for a > while (not that long). It's the way IP works, it allows for delay. Try > to get around this mechanism is usually not a good idea. Normal users > won't notice a lot of disruption on the traffic anyway if setup correctly. >> however failover is automatic and looks like it works. i can unplug >> any of the routers and after some time all the pings to different >> hosts work again. (dead route detection) >> >> i also see pings to google going out of routerA and pings to facebook >> going out of routerB, which means routes are distributed. >> >> despite of successful pings i can't telnet to port 80 of google or >> facebook, and i wonder why? >> >> > TCP Sessions are the key here and complicates the setup a bit. This is > related to what the target sees on the source ip of the packets. You > should look at netfilter's conntrack and packet mangling capability. > >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Try looking for LARTC on googs. It's got a lot of examples to help you >>> achieve what you want. >>> >>> Agi >>> >>> Nelson Serafica wrote: >>> >>>> I have 2 isp provider (ISPA and ISPB) and I have 1 machine. The 2 isp >>>> provide a modem/router and both of them hook up on the same switch. I >>>> called it "PUBLIC SWITCH". My web server was connected also on the >>>> PUBLIC SWITCH and use ISPA provided ip address and its gateway. >>>> >>>> What I want to do is also use ISPB on the same server. I have only 2 NIC >>>> (1 on PUBLIC SWITCH and 1 on my private network) on my webserver. But >>>> since it was connected on the PUBLIC SWITCH, I can use ISPB. >>>> >>>> I put ip address provided by ISPB as virtual (ifcfg-eth0:1) and the >>>> metric gateway was 1. But I think this won't work as expected. >>>> >>>> Is there a way wherein I can use both ISP and their provided ip block on >>>> my web server (just like a router)? My client is on a tight budget and >>>> don't want to purchase another machine just for a load balancer. But >>>> purchasing another NIC card is ok. >>>> >>>> The OS is CentOS 5.3 with kernel 2.6.18-128.el5. Upon Googling, there is >>>> a patch on the kernel on how to do this but it seems old. Just asking a >>>> recommendation on the list who is expert to this. >>>> _________________________________________________ >>>> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >> > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Sent from my mobile device Kelsey Hartigan Go Registered Linux user #5998 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
